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The tribulation is spiritualized, or non-literal. [15] The tribulation precedes the Second Coming, after which there will be a literal Millennium (1,000 year reign of Christ on earth). [16] The concept of a rapture of the church precedes the Second Coming. [17] The view is a form of historicism. [18]
The posttribulation position places the rapture at the end of the tribulation period. Posttribulation writers define the tribulation period in a generic sense as the entire present age, or in a specific sense of a period of time preceding the second coming of Christ. [99] The emphasis in this view is that the church will undergo the tribulation ...
Pre-tribulation rapture theology originated in the eighteenth century, with the Puritan preachers Increase Mather and Cotton Mather, and was popularized extensively in the 1830s by John Nelson Darby [102] [103] and the Plymouth Brethren, [104] and further in the United States by the wide circulation of the Scofield Reference Bible in the early ...
Christian predictions typically refer to events like the Rapture, Great Tribulation, Last Judgment, and the Second Coming of Christ. End-time events are normally predicted to occur within the lifetime of the person making the prediction and are usually made using the Bible—in particular the New Testament —as either the primary or exclusive ...
[8]: 28 [9] Confusion on this point was enhanced because while MacDonald's vision as first published in 1840 describes a posttribulation view of the rapture, a version published in 1861 lacked two important passages that appear to present a posttribulation view: "This is the fiery trial which is to try us. - It will be for the purging and ...
The pretribulation rapture doctrine is the belief in a rapture, or gathering of the saints, that occurs before the Great Tribulation. [ 1 ] This view is generally associated with Dispensational premillennialism , and it was popularized in the 20th century by the Scofield Reference Bible .
In 1989, Whisenant published The Final Shout: Rapture Report 1989, updating his prediction to 1989. [34] 1993 Edgar C. Whisenant When his 1989 prediction failed, Whisenant predicted the Second Coming in 1993, publishing 23 Reasons Why a Pre-Tribulation Rapture Looks Like it will Occur on Rosh-Hashanah 1993. [35] 6 September 1994 Harold Camping
Revivalist postmillennialism is a form of the doctrine held by the Puritans and some today that teaches that the millennium will come about not from Christians changing society from the top down (that is, through its political and legal institutions) but from the bottom up at the grass roots level (that is, through changing people's hearts and ...